Ruins of an Ancient City

Cleveland Museum of Art

Ruins of an Ancient City

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Date
c. 1810–20
Medium
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Culture
England, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
150353

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The painting depicts an imagined scene of a ruined ancient city bathed in the nostalgic glow of twilight. The artist's detailed, almost archeological, interest in these Greek or Roman buildings is characteristic of neoclassicism, although the composition—which plunges suddenly from the foreground into a deep valley—and dramatic lighting are typical of Romantic painting.

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Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance
William Ropner, 1864-1947 (West Hartlepool, England), by 1898, when it was withdrawn from a Christie's sale. | Privat collection (sold, Christie's, London, 24 November 1978, lot 160) as An Extensive Classical Landscape with a Ruined City, ca. 1812-15, for £6,000 to Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox. | Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.

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